Digital and Social Media Officer

Church Mission Society; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent mission organization in Oxford seeks a digital marketing specialist to enhance their online presence. The candidate will create compelling content, especially videos, to engage audiences and support fundraising initiatives. With a flexible work environment that permits significant remote working, this full-time position offers a competitive starting salary and generous benefits including annual leave and wellbeing support. Applicants should have experience in social media, digital content production, and must align with the organization's mission and values.

Benefits

36 days of annual leave

Pension contribution up to 10%

Employee assistance programme

Wellbeing coffee mornings

Volunteer and family emergency leave days

Qualifications

• Proven experience in organic and paid content production on social media.
• Strong knowledge of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X for organizational use.
• Ability to create and edit compelling video content.

Responsibilities

• Help deliver ambitious fundraising and communications goals.
• Utilize social media to raise brand awareness and recruit for mission programs.
• Edit and create high-quality content for various platforms.

Skills

Social media expertise

Video creation

Content production

Website editing

Email marketing

Tools

WordPress

DotDigital

Job description

Do you understand digital marketing and enjoy creating compelling content? Do you know how to make a video that stops the scroll? Would you like to put these skills to use to help others play their part in God’s mission?

• Permanent, full-time 35 hours per week.( We would consider reduced hours)
• Hybrid working - available with 60% home working.
• Starting salary : £30,925 per annum (depending on experience) with a generous pension contribution : up to 10 per cent employer contribution on annual salary.
• CMS offers 36 days of annual leave pro rata (including bank holidays) as well as enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoptionleave.
• CMS supports the mental wellbeing of its employees and offers a generous rewards and wellbeing package,including :

access to 24 / 7 employee assistance programme with qualified counsellors

regular wellbeing coffee mornings

support on menopause for women

up to three volunteer days a year

up to three family emergency leave days a year

retreats and resources for prayer life

We welcome applications from everyone. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from minority groups as they are currently underrepresented within our organisation. All appointments are made on merit of skill, experience and potential as set out in the job description and person specification.

The organisation you’ll be joining

Church Mission Society is comprised of people who are passionate about mission and fired up about helping people follow Jesus. For over 200 years CMS has been at the forefront of global mission, living out the gospel of Jesus, seeing lives changed and communities transformed. If you join CMS you will find an organisation that has been reinvigorated with a fresh vision to make disciples of Jesus among people at the edges, both in the UK and around the world.

Your role

The fundraising and communications group at CMS has ambitious goals and targets and you’ll play a key role in helping successfully deliver on these. You’ll harness the huge potential of social media and other digital platforms to help CMS get the attention of our target audiences, build brand awareness, raise money and recruit people to our mission programmes. As well as having a strong working knowledge of social media platforms, you will need to be able to create and edit video as well as other forms of compelling content.

What you’ll need to succeed

It is essential that the post holder has proven social media, organic and paid content production experience, including video creation, and knowledge of social media posting and interaction via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X in an organisational context.

In addition, proven website editing using a content management system such as WordPress and email marketing via a client such as DotDigital.

It is also a requirement that this post holder is committed to the aims and values of CMS.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download on the CMS website.

Our commitment to you

Our core values of being pioneering, relational, faithful and evangelistic are integral to everything we do, and we work hard to ensure that every member of staff is valued, supported and encouraged to continually learn and develop their skills.

We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of the people we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. We believe that every child or adult we come into contact with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm and abuse. Our recruitment and selection processes are in line with our Safeguarding Policy and the SCHR Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, which CMS is a member of as part of our commitment to safeguarding.

Closing date

We must get your application by midnight on Sunday 11January2026

Interviews are planned to be held on Wednesday 21January 2026 in CMS House, Oxford.

To apply

Please send your application form, CV and evidence of your digital and social media work, including video content that you have edited (for example, links to online work or a portfolio of work) via our websiteorby post to HR Team, Church Mission Society, Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ. CVs will only be considered when sent with a completed Application Form, which is available to download from our website.

Candidates for all UK roles must already be eligible to work in the UK, with a valid visa and work permit if required.

As a member of the Inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, CMS has committed to systematically check with previous employers from the last five years for any ‘SEAH’ (Sexual Exploitation, Abuse or Harassment) issues relating to all potential new hires.